Tim Mahon wrote:

>Hector Aguilar asks (regarding Gould's humming):
>
>>I wonder if this "syndrome" has a name. . . .:-)
>
>If not, why don't we call it "Gouldism", since the majority of responders
>seem to think it doesn't distract or detract? Might as well celebrate him
>for another reason!

As it happens WHRB had its Glenn Gould orgy just yesterday- a reminder
that there is plenty of reason for celebrating him as a great artist with
a special commitment to and belief in the recorded performance.  To obsess
about the humming is more of a distraction than the humming.

Bernard Chasan